Chasing 120 Reviewed By Conny Withay of Bookpleasures.com

Conny Withay

Reviewer Conny Withay:Operating her own business
in office management since 1991, Conny is an avid reader, volunteers
reading the Bible to the elderly, and makes handmade jewelry. A cum
laude graduate with a degree in art living in the Pacific Northwest,
she is married with two sons, two daughter-in-laws, and one
granddaughter.

“Health, he said, was a
matter of obedience to a set of laws he had discovered in the Bible.
Once you understood and obeyed those laws, you could claim the
promise found in Genesis 6:3 and live a vigorous, robust life until
the age of 120,” Dr. Belknap promotes in Monte Wolverton’s novel,
Chasing 120: A Story of Food, Faith, Fraud and the Pursuit of
Longevity.

This one hundred and sixty
page paperback targets those who like contemporary Christian suspense
regarding good versus evil. Its mild profanity may offend some
Christians and may not be appropriate for immature readers. This
reviewer wishes all pronouns of God were capitalized for reverence.

In this debut novel, the
topic of using religion for monetary gain is the focal point,
suggesting if you obey Dr. Tyler Belknap’s “The Eleven Laws of
Wellness” found supposedly in the Word of God, you can live to one
hundred and twenty years old

Having built a
conglomerate of faith-based healthy products to market worldwide,
Belknap has hood-winked Christians into buying anything he produces.
Dave Whitman, the creative director of the Wellness 120 empire for
the past twenty years, is beginning to wonder if enhanced ingredients
are in the nutritional supplements.

When Dave’s seventeen
year old son, Jason, is selected to be one of a hundred youth to
attend the exclusive three week Wellness Summer Program in
Washington’s Cascade foothills, Dave and another co-worker uncover
potentially harmful additives in the next soon-to-be-marketed
product, “Eternal Recall.”

Belknap, more of a
salesman than a preacher, jet-sets across America to establish
political ties to maintain a non-GMO status for his altered cash-cow
products with his loyal sidekicks, who were with him years ago when
he started his rise in power and fame. Using the Bible and religious
scare-tactics, his cult following is oblivious to the decades of
fraud and cover-ups.

Meanwhile, Jason exhibits
long-term memory problems at the camp, gets lost, and meets a strange
man, who explains the evil workings of Belknap’s corporation. His
parents and others race to find out what is going on in the company
while dealing with Jason’s brain damage issues.

An entertaining read that
has too-quick an ending, Wolverton weaves a believable tale,
reminding readers to focus on the True God instead of man and his
greed-driven inventions.

Thanks to the
Bookpleasures and the author for furnishing this complimentary book
in exchange for a review based on the reader’s honest opinions.